Texas gray
The Texas gray is a small grey moth from North America. Its wings are only about as wide as a big coin. In warm Florida it can be seen flying in almost every month of the year.
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Fun facts
Its wings are 16 to 24 millimetres across.
In Florida the grown-ups fly from January to April and again from June to December.
It belongs to the moth family whose caterpillars are called inchworms, because they loop their bodies as they walk.
Most asked questions about Texas gray
?Where does the Texas gray moth live?
In the eastern and southern United States, from Massachusetts down to Florida and across to Texas.
?How big is the Texas gray moth?
It is small. Its wings are about 2 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glenoides texanaria
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Texas gray moth
Where the facts come from
- Glenoides texanaria (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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